人教版英语八年级下册 期中阅读理解训练(二)

这是一份人教版英语八年级下册 期中阅读理解训练(二)，共9页。
D yur eyes jump a few times a secnd ver a perid f time? A jumping eye can happen t anybdy at any time. There are several reasns fr a jumping eye. Let’s have a lk at it!
1．Which ne f the fllwing might NOT cause a jumping eye accrding t the passage?A．Tiredness.B．Dry eyes.C．Stress.D．Happiness.
2．Hw can we stay away frm DES accrding t the passage?
A．Keep staring at the cmputer screen.
B．Use eye drps as ften as pssible.
C．Lk away frm the screen nce every 20 minutes.
D．Use the cmputer fr mre than seven hurs every day.
3．What can stress d t us accrding t Table 3?
A．Stress is gd when we g t see ur friends.
B．T much stress might be harmful t ur eyes.
C．A lt f stress helps ur bdy relax.
D．T much stress is always imprtant t ur eyes.
4．What des the writer try t explain in this passage?
A．Three reasns why we have jumping eyes.
B．The number-ne reasn fr a jumping eye.
C．The Imprtance f getting enugh sleep.
D．Sme useful ways t reduce the stress.
5．Where can we read this article mst prbably?
A．In a magazine.B．Ina stry bk.C．In a guide bk.D．In a pster. (海报)
B
Thang-ga (唐卡) is a special kind f painting and picture. It was fund nly in Tibet. It started frm the Tang Dynasty. Thang-ga paintings have interested many peple in recent years. At the same time, the Chinese gvernment has als tried hard t prtect the culture.
Thang-ga was develped in the 7th century in the Tibetan area. Thang-ga shws Tibetan peple’s lives. The paintings are clrful. The paints used in Thang-ga are different frm thse in ther paintings. Because f the special envirnment f the Tibetan Plateau (青藏高原) and the excellent painting skills, the clrs f Thang-ga lk special. Thrugh hand-making, the beautiful clrs culd last fr hundreds f years.
Hwever, with the develpment f machines, peple nw use cheaper and mre easily-made chemicals t make Thang-ga paints. The traditinal paints used in Thang-ga needed t much wrk and there were many secret methds. Once peple stpped making the paints and frgt abut them. S the skills were lst. The traditinal Thang-ga paintings are difficult t find nw.
Althugh Thang-ga isn’t ppular amng all Chinese peple, it is still a traditinal skill fr ur cuntry and even a kind f Chinese culture. But nw, nly a few peple can d this jb. It’s a pity. S peple shuld realize nt nly this skill shuld be prtected, but als ther traditinal skills, like the paper cutting, Chinese pera, shadw puppet plays and s n. If nt, they will be lst.
1．What des the secnd paragraph mainly talk abut?
A．The paints and clrs f Thang-ga paintings.
B．The envirnment f the Tibetan Plateau.
C．The painting skills f Thang-ga paintings
D．The develpment f Thang-ga paintings.
2．Which f the fllwing is NOT true accrding t the third paragraph?
A．Peple still make Thang-ga paints by hand nw.
B．The skills f making Thang-ga paints nce were lst.
C．It’s difficult t make Thang-ga paints.
D．Peple cannt find traditinal Thang-ga paintings easily nw.
3．What des the last paragraph mainly want t say?
A．Only a few peple can make Thang-ga nw.
B．There are ther kinds f traditinal skills.
C．Peple shuld prtect all traditinal skills.
D．Thang-ga is a kind f Chinese culture.
C
Living things have a life cycle. They are brn, grw, and die. Even thugh stars are nt living things, they d have a life cycle. A star is brm in a clud f dust and gas. A yung star is blue and very ht. A middle-aged star is yellw. It cls and becmes a red giant. Finally, the star expldes. The light f a star tlls astrnmers many things abut the star. Annie Jump Cannn was an American astrnrmer wh carefully classified (分级) stars by lking at tbeir light.
Annie Jump Cannn was brn in 1863. Her mther taught her abut the cnsellatins (星座) when sbe was a girl. Annie was interested in studying the stars when she grew up. But nt many wmen went t cllege in thse days. Als, Annie had an ilness that caused her lst mst f her hearing. But these things didn’t stp Annie frm earning tw cllege degrees.
Cannn was hired t wrk at the Harvard Cllege Observatry (天文台). Astrnmers there used telescpes and tk phtgraphs f the sky. It was an exciting new science.
The light frm each star passed thrugh a prism (棱镜) in the telescpe. A prism is a piece f cut glass. Light passing thrugh a prism is separated int a rainbw. Cannn studied the phts f each band f clrs. Barly phts were black and white. She culd nt see the clrs. She culd nly see different dark lines. She used them t classify stars frm yunger anid very ht t lder and cler.
Annie Jump Cannn classified mre than 300,000 stars! Her star catalg is still used by astrnmers all ver the wrld. During her lifetimne, Cannn received many hnrs. In 1934, an award was named fr her. The Annie J. Cannn Award in Astrnmy is given every year. It is given t a wman astrnmer frm Nrth America.
1．Accrding t the passage, an ld star is __________.
A．htB．yellwC．blueD．a red giant
2．A prism can __________.
A．separate light int clrsB．take a phtgraph
C．cut thrugh glassD．tell the age f a star
3．What desthe underlined “them” in the furth paragraph refer t?
A．Clrs.B．Prisms.C．PhtsD．Dark lines.
4．Which f the fllwing is NOT the descriptin t Cannn?
A．She was nearly deaf.B．She knew abut stars.
C．She didn’t g t cllege.D．She wrked carefully.
5．What is the text style f the passasge?
A．A reprt n science.
B．A reprt n astrnmy.
C．An intrductin t Annie Jump Cannn.
D．An intrductin t the develpmient f astnmy.
D
Which f the fllwing is Snpy’s persnality (性格)?
A．Stupid.B．Able.C．Lazy.D．Plite.
2．What can we knw abut Mcdull accrding t the material?
A．He is clurful.B．He is very rdinary and has many dreams.
C．He is perfect.D．He gives up easily.
3．What tw cartn characters were made by Walt Disney?
A．Mickey and Mcdull.B．Dnald Duck and Mcdull.
C．Dnald Duck and Mickey.D．Mickey and Snpy.
4．What can we learn frm the abve infrmatin?
A．Peple dn’t like Dnald Duck because he is greedy.
B．Bth Dnald Duck and Mcdull were created in the same year.
C．Dnald Duck was created earlier than Snpy.
D．Mickey Muse first appeared in the film called The Wise Little Hen.
5．Where can we prbably read this passage?
A．Frm a ntice.B．Frm a strybk.
C．Frm a guidebk.D．Frm a cartn magazine.
E
My name is Sam. I jined a club called “Passing Help” last mnth. Nw let me tell yu why I jined it.
One evening this May, n my hme my ld car brke dwn. It was 25 miles frm my hme. I wanted t get a ride（搭便车）, but there was n car. It was als hard t take a taxi. I decided t take a bus hme. Then I went t a bus stp nearby.
After a while, a bus came, but it did nt g t my twn. The bus driver was a yung wman. She was kind and she tld me which bus I shuld take. I waited there fr thirty minutes, but n bus came. At last a car came t me and a wman came ut f the car. She was just the bus driver.
“When I reached the bus statin, I knew that the bus t yur twn culdn’t cme, s I returned here. I just can’t leave yu here,” she said. “Get in my car and I will take yu back t yur hme.”
“Cme n, sir,” she said. “Let’s g.”
When we gt t my hme, I wanted t give her sme mney t thank her, but she didn’t accept it. “I nly want t help thers and d smething nice fr smebdy. Pass it alng,” she said.
1．Sam didn’t think f ging hme ________ that evening.
A．by trainB．by busC．by carD．by taxi
2．Frm the passage, we knw that the yung wman was ________.
A．a club bssB．a taxi driverC．a bus driverD．a gas statin wrker
3．The yung wman wanted Sam t ________.
A．give her sme mneyB．get n her bus
C．take her t her huseD．help thers just as she did
4．What is the best title fr the passage?
A．A kind ld manB．Getting a rideC．Passing helpD．A brken car
F
A British man has learned the skills t put n Beijing Opera (京剧). He makes peple enjy his lively shws f the Mnkey King.
Ghaffar Purazar was brn in Iran. He said he had been a big fan f Bruce Lee and wed great interest in Chinese culture. In 1993, he happened t watch Beijing Opera in Lndn frm Jingju Theatre Cmpany f Beijing. Ghafar lved clrful cstumes (戏服), beautiful vices, excellent shws and s n. After ne year, he reached China alne and came a student f Beijing Opera at a Beijing schl.
At the age f 32, he had t learn with yunger students every day, starting frm the mst basic training f the legs and gestures. At that time, he was always trubled by the cnversatins in Beijing Opera. T him, it was the biggest prblem. Hwever, he never gave up.
Five years later, he started t learn t act ut the Mnkey King, a traditinal character frm the Chinese classic (经典的) stry, Jurney t the West. He said he gt t the wrkrm an hur earlier than ther actrs and als bught bks and CDs t understand the characters better.
Ghaffar tday is nt nly gd at speaking Beijing dialect (方言) but als famus in Beijing Opera. He nce gt a tp internatinal prize fr acting ut the Mnkey King.
T help mre peple enjy Beijing Opera, Ghaffar ften teaches the traditinal art frm in schls f different cuntries. When he fund that the language was difficult t understand, he culd translate (翻译) Beijing Opera sng lyrics (歌词). Ghaffar tk a grup f actrs t shw 66 times in a mnth and a half in America. He als tk a 48-member team t shw in Malaysia. Over 400 shws have been put n by him and his team in the past 10 years.
1．What did Ghaffar start t d in 1994?
A．He became a student f Beijing Opera schl.B．He dreamt f Bruce Lee.
C．He tk an interest in Chinese culture.D．He wanted t make a living in China.
2．What was Ghaffar’s biggest prblem?
A．He had always difficulty in training.
B．He didn’t want t learn with yunger students.
C．He didn’t always understand the cnversatins in Beijing Opera.
D．He arrived in China alne.
3．We can knw that Ghaffar ________.
A．translates Jurney t the WestB．likes t buy bks and CDs abut China
C．gets success in Beijing OperaD．puts n many shws in Asia
4．Which f the fllwing abut Ghaffar is TRUE?
A．He created Beijing Opera sng lyrics.
B．He became a teacher at Beijing schl.
C．He put n mre than 400 Beijing Opera shws in Japan.
D．He learned Beijing Opera frm the mst basic training.
5．This passage is mst prbably frm the part f ________ in a newspaper.
A．educatinB．travelC．scienceD．culture
G
The fllwing are sme peple’s pinins n using cell phnes.
I believe that cell phnes are nt t be used while driving. One site said that talking n a cell phne while driving had the same results f drunk driving accidents! Als I think it is very implite t use yur phne in a public place! Once I was in a dctr’s ffice, and peple were very quiet. A wman’s cell phne started ringing. After what seemed a millin rings, she started t talk n her little “ty”, annying every ne.
----- Chelsea frm the US
The cell phne wuld be a great thing if we used it in the right way. Unfrtunately mst f us dn’t use it in the right way because we talk with ur friends fr hurs and hurs, and that’s smething we can d better if we have a cffee tgether. The use f the cell phne in this way is dangerus fr the develpment f gd cmmunicatin. We need t think twice abut hw we are using cell phnes.
----- Graciela Flres frm Mexic
Once when I was studying in the library, I was reading my bk. Suddenly, a cell phne rang. I was s annyed because thse students didn’t have gd manners in public. I lked at them in anger, but they didn’t pay attentin. Nwadays, many yung students use cell phnes everywhere in my cuntry just fr talking t their friends. It keeps students frm studying.
-----Seung-HyeLee frm Krea
I think cell phnes shuld be banned（禁止）in cars and airplanes. It is very clear that peple’s attentin is diverted（分散）if they talk n cell phnes while they are driving. The number f car accidents caused by drivers using cell phnes has risen, s peple shuld nt use them when they are driving. Als, it is dangerus t use them in airplanes because the phne signals can interrupt the airplane’s signal system.
----- Yian Ma frm China
1．What des Chelsea prbably agree with?
A．Cell phnes shuldn’t be used in public.B．The wman is suffering frm a bad disease.
C．Having a drink is exactly like using a cell phne.D．The rings f the cell phnes are wnderful.
2．Wh hlds that it is harmful t talk n the cell phne fr a lng time?
A．Yian MaB．ChelseaC．Graciela FlresD．Seung-Hye Lee
3．Accrding t Seung-Hye Lee, what’s the bad effect f yung students’ using cell phnes?
A．It is dangerus fr the develpment f gd cmmunicatin.
B．They are kept away frm their studies.
C．They can’t read bks in the library.
D．They can’t talk t their friends as they like.
4．Peple that think using cell phnes while driving may lead t accidents are frm _________.
A．Krea and USB．Mexic and ChinaC．US and MexicD．China and US
5．What is the passage mainly abut?
A．Cell phnes can be used in different ways.B．Hw t use cell phnes while driving.
C．Cell phnes shuld be used prperly.D．Peple quarreled ver using cell phnes.
TirednessNt getting enugh sleep r wrking fr t lng withut rest may cause ur eye t cmplain. Scientists aren’t sure why, but they’ve fund that getting mre rest will make ur eyes feel better. Remember nt t stay up late.
Dry eyesMre and mre peple wrk ffice jbs that require a lt f sitting and staring at a cmputer screen. This unhealthy way f life can lead t dry eye syndrme (DES干眼症). When ur eyes are t dry, they can’t help jumping t keep them wet. T stay away frm DES, use eye drps if yu use the cmputer fr mre than seven hurs a day and make sure t lk away frm the screen nce every 20 minutes.
Stress (压力)This is the number-ne reasn fr a jumping eye. It des harm t ur eyes if it lasts fr t lng. When we’ re under a lt f stress, the bdy gives ut stress hrmnes (荷尔蒙) which leads t a “fight r flight” respnse (回应). T slve the prblem, we can see ur friends r relax urselves in rder t reduce the stress that might lead t jumping eyes.
First appearance: Octber 4, 1950 (cmic strip)
Created by: Charles M. Schulz
Infrmatin: Snpy can be selfish (自私的), smart and lazy at times and smetimes fls his wner (主人), but he shws great lve, care and lyalty (忠诚) t his wner (even thugh he cannt even remember his name. The wner always calls him “The Rund-headed Kid”).
First appearance: May 15, 1928 (Plane Crazy)
Created by: Walt Disney
Infrmatin:Mickey is a nice by and usually seen as an hnest and brave her. This muse always wears red shrts, large yellw shes, and white glves (手套). Mickey is ne f the wrld’s mst famus characters.
First appearance: June 9, 1934 (The Wise Little Hen)
Created by: Walt Disney
Infrmatin:Peple like him because he is lazy and greedy (贪婪的). And they lve his vice when he becmes angry with Mickey’s eight nephews (侄子). Sn Dnald Duck’s mre ppular than Mickey Muse himself.
First appearance: June 24, 1995 (cmic bks)
Created by: Alice Mak & Brian Tse
Infrmatin:Mcdull is a pig. He has a heart f gld, but he isn’t very smart and is rdinary in every way, he has many dreams. Hwever, every time he tries, he never succeeds, he is disappinted, but tries again. In this way creates his wn clurful wrld. He is nt perfect, but his attitude (态度) twards life makes him a ppular character.